Caribou and M83 will also play the summer event in Germany

*Melt*! announce the first wave of international acts that will perform at the festival’s 15th edition from 13th to 15th July 2012. Acts including* Gossip*, *Justice*, *Two Door Cinema Club*, *The Whitest Boy Alive*, and *M83* will perform beneath the iconic giant diggers, Bloc Party will...

By Michael Zonenashvili I realized I’ll never see M83 in a small venue. Something I would normally complain about, for M83, is a good thing. The shows revolving around “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” deserve to be seen in rooms with enough people dancing to cause a small earthquake. I said the show I saw on the first leg of the tour was the best I’ve seen in 2011, and Antony Gonzales and crew have already made an important dent in …

The first batch of artists for the fifteenth edition of Melt! Festival have been revealed.

Category:  News Summary:  Melt! have announced the first wave of international acts that will perform at the festival this year, July 13- 15. Melt! have announced the first wave of international acts that will perform at the festival this year, July 13- 15. On the electronic side of things, Richie Hawtin, Ellen Allien (pictured above) and Modeselektor will curate and host individual stages, alongside DJs Adam Beyer, Benga, Brodinski, Caribou, Dave Clarke, Claude VonStroke, Maya Jane Cole, Dixon, Ellen Allien, Laurent Garnier, Switch and Todd Terje. Acts including Gossip, Justice, Two Door Cinema Club, The Whitest Boy Alive, and M83 ...

I Break Horses are set to play a one off show at London's Scala venue on April 1st. I Break Horses are Maria Linden and Fredrik Balck. I Break Horses make beautiful, hazy, gauzy music which seems to linger at the fringe of consciousness. I Break Horses are also returning to the UK. Debut album 'Hearts' was released last year, bowling over fans with its bold atmospherics. Now the Swedish duo are set to re-create the album on a one off show at the Scala. Taking place on April 1st, the show follows a sold out performance at Cargo ...

Bit and bobs of soundtrack news surrounding a variety of musicians and bands have surfaced in the last few days, so we're just gonna round 'em up here. First up, post-whatever band Joan Of Arc have finally lived up to their namesake and recorded a soundtrack to, you guessed it, the seminal silent film "La passion de Jeanne d'Arc." Cleverly titled Joan Of Arc Presents Joan Of Arc, the soundtrack was recorded last year on the opening night of the 2011 Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, it will feature 4 tracks and will be released on vinyl ...

Melt! Festival have announced the initial line-up to take their place amongst the German cranes this July. The festival takes place 13-15th July, and you can buy tickets by heading to meltfestival.de . Before you check out the first bunch of confirmed acts for the festival, make sure you read our Photography Editor's 2011 Melt! Festival experience here . It's quite the read! Benga live Bloc Party Brandt Brauer Frick Brodinski Sistema">Buraka Som Sistema Caribou Claude VonStroke Dave Clarke Destroyer Dillon Dixon Ellen Allien Flux Pavilion Gesaffelstein live Gossip Justice Laurent Garnier pres. LBS M83 Maya Jane Cole ...

Die dänische Elektronica-Koryphäe Anders Trentemøller hat sich an der neuen Single der US-amerikanischen Indie-Rocker The Drums vergriffen und einen Remix für "Days" produziert. Der Song stammt aus dem letztjährigen Album " Portamento ", auf welchem sich die New Yorker erfolgreich vom Stempel der fröhlichen Surf-Pop-Band lösten und wesentlich vielseitigere und ernstere Töne anschlugen. Dazu passt auch die sinister-groovende Neuinterpretation des Produzenten, der in den letzten Jahren unter anderem bereits Songs von Künstlern wie Efterklang , M83 und Depeche Mode remixte. Anhören könnt ihr euch die neue Version an dieser Stelle: The Drums - "Days" (Trentemøller Remix) Seit dem Hype um ihr selbstbetiteltes Debüt haben ...

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Dance music has been making headlines all week thanks to Skrillex's three Grammys victories, that odd rock-meets-beats performance at the ceremony, and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's defense of the genre (after he inadvertently insulted it). Today comes another leap for dub-kind as organizers of the Ultra Music Festival have announced a new international festival brand, "UMF Worldwide." The festival, normally held exclusively in Miami, Florida, will now take place in six countries across four continents including UMF Miami (March 23-25), UMF Buenos Aires (May 5), UMF Poland (July 13 & 14), UMF Korea (August 4), UMF Ibiza (May ...

After announcing the move in October, SPIN has now completed their transition to a large-format, bi-monthly, significantly cooler music magazine. Charles Aaron must be like, the happiest guy in the world right now. (At a CMJ panel on music writing back in 2010, Aaron had pretty much nothing good to say about his job.) Billboard.biz explains some of the deeper changes afoot… “We wanted to reimagine what a music media brand can be in 2012,” Spin’s publisher, Mike Albanese, told Adweek. “It comes down to storytelling, opinion and service. All of our properties are emphasizing those three things ...

In the week of St. Valentine, love, or at least its less honorable cousin lust, is most definitely in the ether. The stage is an equipment geek’s wet dream with synthesizer and effect pedal porn crammed into every corner. The front of the warehouse style basement that is XOYO lined with grown men visibly struggling to adequately divide their attention between their girlfriends and this vast array of metal boxes and flickering lights. In fact there is so much gadgetry it’s a wonder any musicians can fit on the stage at all but fit they do as opening ...

Pünktlich zum Wochenende versüßt uns das Melt! Festival selbiges mit der Bestätigung der ersten Acts für die Veranstaltung, die in diesem Jahr vom 13. bis 15. Juli wieder im Stahlpark Ferropolis bei Gräfenhainichen stattfindet. Neben den ebenfalls taufrischen Acts des  Greenville Festivals ( motor.de berichtete ), kann sich auch die Liste des Melt! sehen lassen — So präsentieren die Indie-Rocker Bloc Party nach längerer Pause ihr Live-Comeback auf deutschen Bühnen und auch die Genre-Größen Gossip und Justice geben sich die Ehre. Etablierte Acts wie die New Yorker Disco-Punks The Rapture und Caribou gesellen sich zu Kritiker-Lieblingen wie BPitch-Signing Dillon oder Brandt Brauer ...